No, sadly it wouldn't. While I personally think forcing your child to find its butchered pet to gain sympathy votes is so counter productive for anyone with proper emotional and logical functioning to even contemplate, it is something that a complete whack job could do.

(I missed my morning walk trying to explain this, and LJ is not letting it post, so sorry if you get a few of this. But I was not going to be thought scum-complicit in vain, if that makes sense. Or matters.)

I don't know what the commenter's motive was for bringing it up, but it's a question I likely would have asked police, if the guy were being considered a suspect, and then noted their answer in the article, just to cover that base. That's why I noticed the remark, although I should note as I said elsewhere, I highly doubt it's at all true. It just stuck out to me.

To be far all angles have to be examined in something this serious...and that is an angle that has to be looked at. That being said political managers using the trauma of their child finding a butchered pet to score votes would be extremely counter logical.